antebellum | (adjective) belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | - |
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baneberry | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher |
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(noun) a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea | - |
belieber | (noun) A fan of Justin Bieber | - |
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blaeberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
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bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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(noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
(noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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(noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
bumblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: humblebee |
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candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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cerebellum | (noun) a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans | - |
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coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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debenture | (noun) a certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt | - |
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(noun) the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future | Synonyms: debenture bond, unsecured bond |
ephebeia | (noun) in ancient Greece, a state institution organized to train freeborn youths between the ages of 18 and 20 for military and administrative service. | - |
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farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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forebear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forbear |
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freebee | (noun) something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) | Synonyms: freebie |
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glebe | (noun) plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office | - |
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gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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(noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
grebe | (noun) small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet | - |
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grouseberry | (noun) shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries | Synonyms: grouse-berry, grouse whortleberry, Vaccinium scoparium |
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harebell | (noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia |
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(noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: bluebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
hartebeest | (noun) a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward | - |
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hebephrenia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions | Synonyms: disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia |
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hebephrenic | (adjective) suffering from a form of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms and senseless laughter along with delusions and regressive behavior | - |
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hebetude | (noun) mental lethargy or dullness | - |
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horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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(noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
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(noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
(noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
humblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: bumblebee |
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iceberg | (noun) lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head | Synonyms: crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce |
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(noun) a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | Synonyms: berg |
jezebel | (noun) a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
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juneberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: saskatoon, serviceberry, shadberry |
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lebensraum | (noun) space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding | Synonyms: living space |
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macebearer | (noun) an official who carries a mace of office | Synonyms: mace, macer |
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maleberry | (noun) deciduous much-branched shrub with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers | Synonyms: he-huckleberry, Lyonia ligustrina, male berry, privet andromeda |
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mebendazole | (noun) an anthelmintic used to treat hookworm and pinworm and roundworm infestations | - |
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paleocerebellum | (noun) the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals | - |
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partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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phlebectomy | (noun) surgical removal or all or part of a vein; sometimes done in cases of severe varicose veins | - |
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phoebe | (noun) small dun-colored North American flycatcher | Synonyms: phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe |
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plebe | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: cadet |
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plebeian | (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar |
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(noun) one of the common people | Synonyms: pleb |
plebeianism | (noun) The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common. | - |
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prebend | (noun) the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon | - |
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prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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rebel | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: maverick |
(verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rise, rise up |
(verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: renegade |
rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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(noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
rebellious | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent |
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(adjective) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government | - |
(adjective) resisting control or authority | - |
rebelliously | (adverb) in a rebellious manner | Synonyms: contumaciously, defiantly |
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rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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(noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
rougeberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant |
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serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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(noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
shebeen | (noun) unlicensed drinking establishment | - |
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snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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talebearer | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: blabbermouth, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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talebearing | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, leaky, tattling |
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thebe | (noun) 100 thebe equal 1 pula in Botswana | - |
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thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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(noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
(noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
weber | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells | Synonyms: Wb |
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whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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(noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |
wildebeest | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: gnu |
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wineberry | (noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits | Synonyms: Rubus phoenicolasius |
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(noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, makomako, New Zealand wine berry |
woebegone | (adjective) affected by or full of grief or woe | Synonyms: woeful |
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(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down |